CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 85, 8 March 1884, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not hold ourselves responsible tor the ojlnions expressed by our correspondents).

NEWSPAPER ANIMUS V. NEWSPAPER ETIQUETTE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—ln your contemporary’s issue of Wednesday last, appeared a local, inserting in full two cases which had not made their appearance in court. Now, sir, this evidently shows animus with a vengeance, and is contrary to all journalistic custom, at variance with newspaper etiquette, and of no public benefit. It must therefore be based on that animus, so fully displayed in the uncalled-for current of abuse and prejudice which has recently flown so freely through the columns of that so-called journal, the Poverty Bay Herald, and which will, in due course, have its deserts. The evidence which will be adduced in Court, when those cases come on for hearing, will, I daresay, explain the matter in full. I presume the information was obtained either from the Clerk totleß. M. Court’s office, Mr. B'assey’s office, or Mr. Finn’s office, they being the only available souices for supplying the particulars as set fortn in the Herald. I may now state that, in my opinion, if the Clerk to the R.M. Court or his officers supplied such information, giving full particulars of cases before being publicly heard in Court, they have undoubtedly over-stepped their duty as public servants, and if any of tbe solicitors referred to supplied such information, I should not wish to be one who would iu future entrust much business to their care. It is now open to each of them to exonerate themselves from blame in slandering me in the characteristic Chrisp manner for which the Herald is so renowned. Yours, &c., E. P. Joyce. Gisborne, March Gth, 1884.